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• Faith has need of the whole truth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Needs, Whole, Whole Truth

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• So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.

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  Moving, Reality, Serenity

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• In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

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  Spiritual, Process, Spiritual Life

  "The Divine Milieu". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1960.

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• Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

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  Men, Essence, Progress

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• Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

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  Men, Bud, Complicated

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• We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

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  Science, Long Ago, Would Be

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses, through its powers of enlargement, penetration and exact measurement, it constantly increases the scope and clarity of our perceptions. It fulfills the dream of all living creatures by satisfying our instinctive craving for the maximum of consciousness with a minimum of effort! Having embarked upon so profitable a path, how can Mankind fail to pursue it?

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  Crush, Dream, Effort

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• Over every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, to ripen during this day say again the words: This is my Body. And over every death-force which waits in readiness to corrode, to wither, to cut down, speak again your commanding words which express the supreme mystery of faith: This is my Blood.

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  Spring, Flower, Cutting

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1995). “Hymn of the Universe”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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• The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection...A new domain of psychical expansion- that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it.

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  Thinking, Reflection, Ideas

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• We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task.

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  Technology, Connections, Tasks

  "A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain" by Jennifer Cobb Kreisberg, www.wired.com. June 1, 1995.

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• The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.

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  Passion, Zest, Giving

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1968). “Writings in Time of War”

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• Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind, in one word noogenesis. When for the first time in a living creature instinct perceived itself in its own mirror, the whole world took a pace forward.

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  Science, Men, Mirrors

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Phenomenon of Man”, p.140, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

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  Life, Couple, Team

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955.

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• It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

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  Life, Water, Wade

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• The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

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  Profound, Way, Evolution

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1972). “On love”

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• The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

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  Two, World, Summit

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.101, Lulu Press, Inc

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• My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.

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  Psychics, Long, Path

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• Joy is the sheer evidence of God.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Joy, Evidence Of God, Evidence

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• If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level - indeed in the molecule itself - it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form... Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.

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  Love, Life, Molecules

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1959.

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• It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building its composite brain beneath our eyes. May it not be that tomorrow, through the logical and biological deepening of the movement drawing it together, it will find its heart, without which the ultimate wholeness of its power of unification can never be achieved?

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  Heart, Eye, Drawing

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• The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Dog, Pet, Doe

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• Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.

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  Life, Reflection, Psychics

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• No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within each of us. With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Thinking, Psychics, Woven

  PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN (1964). “THE FUTURE OF MAN”

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• We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic 'temperature' are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet 'as a whole.'

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  Science, Reality, Psychics

  "The Heart of Matter". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1950.

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• We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Journey, May

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